In Tracks and Ties Andre Dubus starts off by talking about present day and then looks back on his past. He reads about his friends in the New York Times and it makes him think back to when he was associated with them. When he reads about the story in the old grey lady he [...]
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Tracks & Ties/Coming Home Again
November 16, 2009
Somehow Form a Family
November 9, 2009
Tony Earley wrote this piece with an intent to show how the television changed his family and life. Concretely, Earley uses the television to show something real in his life. Abstractly he uses the shows within the t.v. to represent his own life. Before his family had a nice t.v. Earley and his family were [...]
Spellbound
October 28, 2009
Ted is a child from a small town of Rolla Missouri. His parents, Earl and Dorothy seem like the typical midwestern parents. At first impression they do not seem rather intelligent but they just want their child to succeed. One socioeconomic factor that affects Ted is the fact that he comes from a small town [...]
Chapter 12, 13, & 14
October 16, 2009
Chapter 12 deals with the slaughtering process on the farm. Pollan talks a lot about the slaughtering process for chickens and even helps Joel Salatin. During this process Salatin explains his view his farm. He really goes into detail about his disgust for the American government and how they tell him to run his farm. [...]
10 Sources
October 14, 2009
No Link Between Violent Video Games and School Shootings This article focuses on a study that was done by Texas A&M’s Christopher Ferguson. His study shows how aggression and violence is not caused by video games but how it is caused by “moral panic.” He demonstrates how moral panic rise from culture wars stemming from [...]
Commercials for Invincible Vodka
October 13, 2009
Chapter 9 & 11
October 6, 2009
Chapter 9 is a long chapter where Pollen mainly describes the role of organic foods. Throughout most of the chapter he walks up and down the aisles of a store that specializes in organic foods and goes from there. For many of the organic foods he wishes to purchase, Pollen traces back their life story [...]
Story Board
October 4, 2009
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Chapter 8 & 10
October 4, 2009
In chapter 8 Pollen really switches the way he has been thinking. Throughout the first 100 pages Pollen described how corn is in everything. Corn is pretty much the building blocks of everything we eat. But now in chapter eight Pollen starts to talk about how grass is the basis of everything. He uses the [...]
Research Articles
October 4, 2009
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